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2006-09-21* GC options in nix-store --help (NIX-15).Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-05* Sone missing #includes.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-04* Use a proper namespace.Eelco Dolstra
* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-08-11* `nix-store --gc --print-dead': print the total size of the storeEelco Dolstra
objects that would be freed.
2006-05-12* Support for srcdir != builddir (NIX-41).Eelco Dolstra
2006-03-06* `nix-env (-i|-u) --dry-run' now shows exactly which missing pathsEelco Dolstra
will be built or substituted.
2006-03-06* Regularise help text a bit.Eelco Dolstra
2006-03-01* db.hh shouldn't depend on the Berkeley DB headers.Eelco Dolstra
2006-03-01* Uninitialised variable. Fixes the --delete test.Eelco Dolstra
2006-02-16* A simple hack to fix NIX-18: the garbage collector cannot run whenEelco Dolstra
the disk is full (because to delete something from the Nix store, we need a Berkeley DB transaction, which takes up disk space). Under normal operation, we make sure that there exists a file /nix/var/nix/db/reserved of 1 MB. When running the garbage collector, we delete that file before we open the Berkeley DB environment.
2006-01-19* Don't show cycles, they're not very useful.Eelco Dolstra
2005-12-23* Added a flag `--ignore-liveness' to `nix-store --delete'. ItEelco Dolstra
deletes a path even if it is reachable from a root. However, it won't delete a path that still has referrers (since that would violate store invariants). Don't try this at home. It's a useful hack for recovering from certain situations in a somewhat clean way (e.g., holes in closures due to disk corruption).
2005-12-23* Revived the old "nix-store --delete" operation that deletes theEelco Dolstra
specified paths from the Nix store. However, this operation is safe: it refuses to delete anything that the garbage collector wouldn't delete.
2005-12-15* `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdoutEelco Dolstra
(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-12-13* Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, theEelco Dolstra
nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-07-22* Build dynamic libraries.Eelco Dolstra
2005-05-04* Include some required header files.Eelco Dolstra
2005-04-08* nix-store: `--substitute' -> `--register-substitutes'.Eelco Dolstra
2005-04-08* Make `nix-store --query --tree' work on non-derivations (i.e., onEelco Dolstra
any store path).
2005-04-07* Support base-32 hash representations.Eelco Dolstra
2005-04-07* `nix-store --add-fixed' to preload the outputs of fixed-outputEelco Dolstra
derivations. This is mostly to simplify the implementation of nix-prefetch-{url, svn}, which now work properly in setuid installations. * Enforce valid store names in `nix-store --add / --add-fixed'.
2005-03-26* Re-enable dot graph generation.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-23* `nix-store --register-validity': allow a path to refer to a pathEelco Dolstra
listed later in the list of new valid paths.
2005-03-23* Canonicalise path meta-data in `nix-store --register-validity'.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-23* nix-store: `--isvalid' -> `--check-validity', `--validpath' ->Eelco Dolstra
`--register-validity'. * `nix-store --register-validity': read arguments from stdin, and allow the references and deriver to be set.
2005-03-02* `nix-store -q --hash' to quickly query the hash of the contents of aEelco Dolstra
store path (which is stored in the database).
2005-02-22* Compatibility hack so that Nixpkgs can continue to do hash checkingEelco Dolstra
in `fetchurl' in Nix <= 0.7, but doesn't in Nix 0.8.
2005-02-17* `nix-store -q --tree' shows a tree representing the dependency graphEelco Dolstra
of the given derivation. Useful for getting a quick overview of how something was built. E.g., to find out how the `baffle' program in your user environment was built, you can do $ nix-store -q --tree $(nix-store -qd $(which baffle)) Tree nesting depth is minimised (?) by topologically sorting paths under the relation A < B iff A \in closure(B).
2005-02-17* Switch to the calling user context for some more operations in aEelco Dolstra
setuid installation.
2005-02-14* It is now possible to add store derivations or paths directly to aEelco Dolstra
user environment, e.g., $ nix-env -i /nix/store/z58v41v21xd3ywrqk1vmvdwlagjx7f10-aterm-2.3.1.drv or $ nix-env -i /nix/store/hsyj5pbn0d9iz7q0aj0fga7cpaadvp1l-aterm-2.3.1 This is useful because it allows Nix expressions to be bypassed entirely. For instance, if only a nix-pull manifest is provided, plus the top-level path of some component, it can be installed without having to supply the Nix expression (e.g., for obfuscation, or to be independent of Nix expression language changes or context dependencies).
2005-02-09* Propagate the deriver of a path through the substitute mechanism.Eelco Dolstra
* Removed some dead code (successor stuff) from nix-push. * Updated terminology in the tests (store expr -> drv path). * Check that the deriver is set properly in the tests.
2005-02-08* Subflag in `--verify': `nix-store --verify --check-contents' checksEelco Dolstra
that the contents of store paths has not changed by comparing hashes of their current contents to the hashes stored in the database.
2005-02-08* Updated `nix-store --verify' to the new schema.Eelco Dolstra
2005-02-07* `nix-store -qb' to query derivation environment bindings. UsefulEelco Dolstra
for finding build-time dependencies (possibly after a build). E.g., $ nix-store -qb aterm $(nix-store -qd $(which strc)) /nix/store/jw7c7s65n1gwhxpn35j9rgcci6ilzxym-aterm-2.3.1 * Arguments to nix-store can be files within store objects, e.g., /nix/store/jw7c...-aterm-2.3.1/bin/baffle. * Idem for garbage collector roots.
2005-02-07* Maintain a database table (`derivers') that maps output paths to theEelco Dolstra
derivation that produced them. * `nix-store -qd PATH' prints out the derivation that produced a path.
2005-02-01* Move root finding from `nix-collect-garbage' to `nix-store --gc'.Eelco Dolstra
This was necessary becase root finding must be done after acquisition of the global GC lock. This makes `nix-collect-garbage' obsolete; it is now just a wrapper around `nix-store --gc'. * Automatically remove stale GC roots (i.e., indirect GC roots that point to non-existent paths).
2005-02-01* nix-build: use an indirection scheme to make it easier for users toEelco Dolstra
get rid of GC roots. Nix-build places a symlink `result' in the current directory. Previously, removing that symlink would not remove the store path being linked to as a GC root. Now, the GC root created by nix-build is actually a symlink in `/nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto' to `result'. So if that symlink is removed the GC root automatically becomes invalid (since it can no longer be resolved). The root itself is not automatically removed - the garbage collector should delete dangling roots.
2005-02-01* nix-store, nix-instantiate: added an option `--add-root' toEelco Dolstra
immediately add the result as a permanent GC root. This is the only way to prevent a race with the garbage collector. For instance, the old style ln -s $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)) \ /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result has two time windows in which the garbage collector can interfere (by GC'ing the derivation and the output, respectively). On the other hand, nix-store --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result -r \ $(nix-instantiate --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/drv \ foo.nix) is safe. * nix-build: use `--add-root' to prevent GC races.
2005-01-27* Fix and simplify the garbage collector (it's still not concurrent,Eelco Dolstra
though). In particular it's now much easier to register a GC root. Just place a symlink to whatever store path it is that you want to keep in /nix/var/nix/gcroots.
2005-01-25* Maintain the references/referers relation also for derivations.Eelco Dolstra
This simplifies garbage collection and `nix-store --query --requisites' since we no longer need to treat derivations specially. * Better maintaining of the invariants, e.g., setReferences() can only be called on a valid/substitutable path.
2005-01-25* Simplification: registerSubstitutes -> registerSubstitute. We noEelco Dolstra
longer need the former since there we no longer have the substitutes-rev table (which triggered a O(n^2) cost in updating them).
2005-01-25* Really fix the substitute mechanism, i.e., ensure the closureEelco Dolstra
invariant by registering references through the manifest. * Added a test for nix-pull.
2005-01-25* In nix-store: added query `--referers-closure' that returns theEelco Dolstra
closure of the referers relation rather than the references relation, i.e., the set of all paths that directly or indirectly refer to the given path. Note that contrary to the references closure this set is not fixed; it can change as paths are added to or removed from the store.
2005-01-25* In nix-store: change `--build' back to `--realise'. Also broughtEelco Dolstra
back the query flag `--force-realise'. * Fixed some of the tests.
2005-01-19* Nix-store queries `--references' and `referers' to query the pointerEelco Dolstra
graph. That is, `nix-store --query --references PATH' shows the set of paths referenced by PATH, and `nix-store --query --referers PATH' shows the set of paths referencing PATH.
2005-01-19* Renamed `normalise.cc' -> `build.cc', `storeexprs.cc' ->Eelco Dolstra
`derivations.cc', etc. * Store the SHA-256 content hash of store paths in the database after they have been built/added. This is so that we can check whether the store has been messed with (a la `rpm --verify'). * When registering path validity, verify that the closure property holds.
2005-01-19* `nix-store --build' now builds its arguments in parallel instead ofEelco Dolstra
sequentially (within the limits set by `--jobs'). This should greatly improve the utilisation of the build farm when doing Nixpkgs builds.
2005-01-19* Change extension `.store' to `.drv'.Eelco Dolstra
* Re-enable `nix-store --query --requisites'.
2005-01-19* Started removing closure store expressions, i.e., the explicitEelco Dolstra
representation of closures as ATerms in the Nix store. Instead, the file system pointer graph is now stored in the Nix database. This has many advantages: - It greatly simplifies the implementation (we can drop the notion of `successors', and so on). - It makes registering roots for the garbage collector much easier. Instead of specifying the closure expression as a root, you can simply specify the store path that must be retained as a root. This could not be done previously, since there was no way to find the closure store expression containing a given store path. - Better traceability: it is now possible to query what paths are referenced by a path, and what paths refer to a path.
2005-01-13* Refactoring to support SHA-1.Eelco Dolstra